Eating low-fat low-calorie diet still remains the most popular way to lose weight. While I am not into diet wars, and have successfully lost weight with different approaches (low-fat low-calorie and high-fat low carb), there is one good reason why you should plan to include more fat in your meals, especially when trying to lose [...]
If you’ve been overweight for a long time, you might find it extremely difficult to get back in shape despite diet and exercise. On the other hand, most of us don’t have issues with losing a few newly-gained pounds, as long as one condition is met – we do it fast! Dieters have noticed it [...]
According to a new study, your daily emotional turmoil may have negative impact on your mental health. Scientists from the University of California conducted a study in attempt to answer a long-standing question: Do daily emotional experiences make you stronger or do these experiences drag your down? As much as we would like to believe [...]
A while ago I wrote about $10,000 diet. Believe it or not, some people are ready to pay this amount for nothing more than common sense science-based weight loss advice and a little counselling (not that I tried). The diet works and I guess its high price is one of the major factors of success. [...]
By Tim Crowe, Deakin University One of the few positives put forward by smokers to justify their habit is that it helps keep their weight in check. And while smoking may be harmful to their health, so is obesity. So how does this claim measure up? The health harms of smoking are well known – [...]
While many consider permanent tattoos somewhat extreme, most people don’t mind temporary tattoos. Unlike permanent tattoos where ink is injected into the skin, temporary tattoos use black henna which is applied on skin and the drawing fades in about two to three weeks. This is an example of what can be achieved with black henna [...]
I don’t know about you, but to me the word acupuncture doesn’t sound as exotic as it once did. For those who don’t know, acupuncture is a traditional Chinese medical system that involves stimulation of points on the body using various techniques, most commonly needles. Here is how acupuncture needles look… Chinese treatments are almost [...]
This morning I stumbled upon interesting research conducted in 2001 – that is obviously quite old, but I think you’ll find it interesting (research documentation). The researchers studied a group of elderly people by comparing the degree of wrinkling of their skin and the state of their general health, lifestyle and overall well-being. The researchers [...]
We wrote a lot about vitamin C here, but I have found some more absolutely shocking facts about vitamin C. Ladies, vitamin C is more fragile that you thought. Just look at this: – Oranges lose 30 percent of vitamin C after squeezing. – Frozen fruits and vegetables have 25 percent less vitamin C than [...]
The word cellulite began to appear in English publications in the late 1960s, with the earliest mention in Vogue (15 April 1968). Nobody worried about cellulite before, nobody even heard of it, but once it was mentioned in Vogue the word spread like wildfire. Here is what was said about it: Vogue began to focus [...]
